Changing "," between year and page number to ":" in a style

yymark · 2026-02-06T03:18:11+00:00

Hi,

I am very bad at CSL and I've been trying to look in the code of this style: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bwiernik/6b60a0e21ad6b63516a85c305a0d25ad/raw/6e9168cde23fb327d9c483e64cbdfd09e3437851/chicago-author-date-footnotes.csl in regards to how to change the seperator "," to ":" between the year of publication and page number in the footnotes, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. Would anyone be able to help me by any chance?

dunning · 2026-02-06T07:27:55+00:00

There are lots of author-date styles that do this, such as MHRA and Oxford.

yymark · 2026-02-06T11:43:18+00:00

I checked the styles you recommended. Unfortunately neither seems to have citations with the correct format in footnotes. I am fairly sure my university uses an edited version of Chicago, hence why I asked how changing that style would be possible.

dunning · 2026-02-06T14:27:55+00:00

In the file for the 17th or 18th edition on the Zotero Style Repository, look within the <citation> element. Change <group delimiter=", "> to your preferred punctuation.